I
Can See You ,
by Karen Rose
A sadistic killer has fooled the police
with his first two murders by setting up the murder
scenes to appear to be suicides. His third murder is
about to be called the same until Noel Webster, a homicide
detective, becomes curious as he observes the scene
of a hanging woman. Noah sees the woman's body hanging
from a hook in the bedroom ceiling and is puzzled as
to why would she get a hook and put it there to hang
herself. The woman is dressed in a very short, cut low
red dress and her face is heavily made up. At her feet
on the floor is a pair of red shoes with 5 inch stiletto
heels. The woman does not seem to be a hooker which
adds to Noah's confusion. He sees a stool lying on its
side under the body and with a gloved hand picks it
up. When he moves it over and stands it up beneath the
woman's feet, he is shocked to see that it is inches
short of her feet. He knows there is no way she stood
on that stool and stepped off to hang herself. When
he picks up one of the shoes and holds it against her
foot, he can see it is much too small to fit her foot.
The suicide has become a homicide. When Noah examines
the files on the earlier suicides, he concludes that
they were also homicides.
After the victims' names and ages are released
to the media, a graduate student tells Noah that she
knew them and that they had been participating in a
computer program she is using in her research. She tells
him that there are six women who spend 12 to 16 hours
a day on the program and that she thinks she knows who
the next victim will be. The question is who besides
Eve knows the names and addresses of the program participants.
When Eve helps Noah investigate and the killer learns
of her involvement, she becomes the next target.
Karen Rose has written a spine-tingling
suspense thriller that will keep the listener guessing
who the killer might be, right up to the conclusion.
The well-crafted plot twists back around itself, ensnaring
characters like debris in a Mississippi bayou. Even
with careful attention to clues, the reader will more
than likely be outguessed at least once before the killer
is revealed. This book is made even more fascinating
by Rose's discussion of virtual reality and the many
roles computers play in modern society. There is something
for everyone in this intriguing and terrifying audio
book.
John
Mormon
11/20/09
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